 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 574 דפים
...Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ignorance and confidence. "Pis a particular pleasure to me here, to read the voyages to the Levant, which are 1 generally so far removed from truth, and so full of absurdities, I am very well diverted with them.... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 דפים
...Turkey from that worthy author Dumont. who has written with equal ignorance and confidence. 'T is a particular pleasure to me here to read the voyages...never fail giving you an account of the women, whom 't is certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men, into whose company... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - 1922 - 552 דפים
...particular pleasure to me here to read the voyages of the Levant which are generally so far removed from the truth and so full of absurdities. I am very well diverted...never fail giving you an account of the women whom it is certain they never saw and talking wisely of men, into whose company they are never admitted,... | |
 | Leslie P. Peirce - 1993 - 404 דפים
...merchants etc.. who can only pick up some confus'd informations which are generally false. ... Tis a particular pleasure to me here to read the voyages to the Levant. which are generally so far remov'd from Truth and so full of Absurditys 1 am very well diverted with 'em. They never fail giving... | |
 | Gillian Perry - 1994 - 276 דפים
...of Turkey from that worthy Author Dumont, who has writ with equal ignorance and confidence. 'Tis a particular pleasure to me here to read the Voyages...so full of Absurdities I am very well diverted with 'em. They never fail giving you an Account of the Women, which 'tis certain they never saw, and talking... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 1994 - 306 דפים
...It was death for a man to be found in women's quarters. Other accounts of voyages to the Levant were "generally so far removed from truth and so full of...They never fail giving you an account of the women, which it is certain they never saw" (1: 367). She discovered that Turkish women had enormous privileges... | |
 | Meyda Yegenoglu - 1998 - 200 דפים
...Ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has writ with equal ignorance and confidence. Tis a particular pleasure to me here to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally so far remov'd from Truth and so full of Absurditys I am very well diverted with 'em. They never fail giving... | |
 | Robert Allison - 2000 - 304 דפים
...depravity. She especially attacked Western travelers who came East with preconceived notions. It was "a particular pleasure to me here, to read the voyages...of absurdities, I am very well diverted with them." The travelers, she wrote, "never fail giving you an account of the women, whom 'tis certain they never... | |
 | Bernard Lewis - 2004 - 456 דפים
...ignorance and confidence. 'Tis a particular pleasure to me here [in Istanbul, where she was writing] to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally...They never fail giving you an account of the women which 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men into whose company... | |
 | Zachary Lockman - 2004 - 340 דפים
...ignorance or gross distortion. "They never fail," she wrote, "giving you an account of the Women, which 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely...of the Genius of the men, into whose company they were never admitted," and offered a much more nuanced and balanced perspective. Countering widespread... | |
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Tis a particular pleasure to me here to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally so far removed from truth and so full of absurdities, I am very well diverted with them. They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom, 'tis certain,... 
